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• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  Macbook for a few months, right? How well has that worked out for you? I ... there were seven Apple laptops in the car. I switched to Mac right before ... something that I would not want my mother to read, which is even more awkward

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  , so I’m not complaining.   I’m in Black Valley Hostel, a ... to 23% when I charged it in the bathroom of an old abbey, and had ... those stones. When I got to the hostel, the woman welcomed me in and I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  sisters. Upon arriving, I signed in with my name, living group, and class ... , it was pretty much anyone's guess as to how the conversation would go ... I imagine the parents would probably tend to disagree with me on that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  talks about how overwhelming MIT is in this post, and i very much agree ... , but i would try to study with others whenever i wasn't too stressed. i ... 'd done in many months. i wasn't sure what to do—i always prioritized

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  the full-size version. I’ve been looking at how changing the title of a ... looking and play a large part in determining how memorable a visualization ... effectively bias how people interpret the data contained in a graph. We wanted

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  . But I didn't know how to make these, as my education in engineering ... before, I come from a small town in the woods, a place where people ... back in college. It was made out of schedule 40 PVC and would shoot a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and ... them. However, in total, 72 units was too many. I skipped most of my ... content during the psets, which would have gone more smoothly if I did the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  't believe it's been one year already. In this intervening year, I evolved into ... going to be living in the same dorm as him. I lived in a triple during my ... plenty of it going in the other direction, lol) I had lots of American

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  passions in high school, from research (I don't know how many ISEF and ... next CPW would help? =p) and apparently I look a lot taller. 10. "Wow, you don't sound like a college professor in real life!" I'm sure now

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  be in the form of a blog, I thought, "well how can I not?" 1 ... plenty interested. I've even managed to get myself tangled up in potential ... , so I looked up that little fact and wrote it in my planner. June 6th

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  Championships in a few days, I thought I would share a bit of my experience with ... . As I recently wrote in an op-ed piece for the higher ed website Inside ... her personal growth and genuine enthusiasm for learning. In the piece I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  . Come on, help me out. In other news, I finally figured out how I'll be ... water slides. And I was bored out of my mind. There were about 3 people in ... back in puzzlement and continued to stare at the water, thinking. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  out exactly how it was intended. In the spirit of most hacks, though, it ... Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day ... incompetent. # Sign-ins should not be seen by the general public. Sign-ins

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  people I've met who are 6-3 (which is... a lot) aren't in it solely for the ... all-time low (senior house and its aftermath). In the end, I got a C in ... put in enough effort to where I felt a lot better with algorithmic

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  in my cozy bed. (I'm wondering that a little myself.) I am, somewhat involuntarily, in lab, finishing up a Western blot. I swear, my cells call the ... 't necessarily understand -- I mean, really, how superficial is that? I think what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  , by default, are placed in RBA. (Ask me how I know.) And even though RBA ... would be stuck in it, especially since I didn't get to go to my CPW and ... seriously. I cannot stress this enough. Try to pick a place that fits you in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  walked in, there was tons of bread at desk. Even baguettes, and I love ... ! - but I didn't go downstairs right away, I was in the middle of something ... miscellaneous. Hmm. In two and a half hours, I will be attending the "Petit

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  there has been in a while. I was outside writing this blog in Killian Court, but the sun was causing too much glare so i’m in the library right ... ’t think i ever read…) for weeks about an event in lobby 10. Thursday I saw

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  I turned it in, the full implications of this simple point would ... one of the topics in the class I found most exciting - one about which I ... , State, and Utopia in 1974. This book would capture the public imagination

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  friend Evelyn and me decided that we would test how the external ... turn! So this semester, I took Quantitative Physiology I: Cells and ... aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005